Phoca Guestbook Options (Parameters - since Joomla! 3)

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Phoca Guestbook is running on different Joomla! versions. So it is possible that you will not find all listed parameters in your Phoca Guestbook - depends on used Joomla! system.

Options (formerly known as Parameters)

Go to Components - Phoca Guestbook - Control Panel - click on icon Options (you can find this icon in top left corner of your Joomla! administration)

Options (Parameters) can be managed only by Super Users (Super Administrators) or you need to have rights to manage them in Joomla! Administration.

More detailed information about Parameters you can find in this article: Default settings (Parameters - component in menu item) which does not include description about newest options but can be more helpful because it includes more information with examples and images.

Form

Parameter

Value

Display Subject In Form

Display or hide field Subject in form, set if field Subject will be required

Display Name In Form

Display or hide field Name in form, set if field Name will be required

Display Email In Form

Display or hide field Email in form, set if field Email will be required

Display Website In Form

Display or hide field Website in form, set if field Website will be required

Display Content In Form

Display or hide field Content in form, set if field Content will be required

Enable Javascript Editor

Enable or disable javascript editor

Display Form

Set if form should be displayed or not. If not then link to the form will be displayed (clicking on link will display the form)

Form Position

Select the positon of the Phoca Guestbook form in the frontend

Form style

Select the syle form the form

General

Parameter

Value

Predefined Name

If user will be not logged in, set the predefined name in input form Name. For example: Guest

Username Or Name

Select which name should be displayed in Phoca Guestbook (Username or real name of the user)

Disable User Check

Set if user check will be disabled. If yes, anonymous or not logged in users can post email and username which is registered by registered user (disabling this parameter is not recommended)

View

Set if posts should be displayed or not. Phoca Guestbook with disabled posts can be used as e.g. contact form

Display Name In Post

Display or hide name (username) in post box

Display Email In Post

Display or hide email in post box

Display Website In Post

Display or hide website in post box

Display Comments

Set if comments should be displayed or not (only valid if display posts enabled)

Display Name In Reply

Display or hide name (username) in Comment box

Display Subject In Reply

Display or hide subject in Comment box

Display Email In Reply

Display or hide email in Comment box

Display Website In Reply

Display or hide website in Comment box

Display Date In Reply

Display or hide date in Comment box

Show Pagination

Unset if pagination should be hidden (Only limit values are shown)

Pagination Default Value

Set default value for pagination

Pagination (Posts)

Set pagination values for posts. Separate each pagination value with comma(,)

Can change limit

User can change the pagination (limit) by dropdown.

Enable Cache

Enable cache if it is enabled in Joomla! Global Configuration

Security

Parameter

Value

Forbidden Words

Set forbidden words, which will be not displayed in the frontend. Separate each word with a comma (,)

Forbidden Whole Words

Set whole forbidden words, which will be not displayed in the frontend. Separate each word with a comma (,)

Save post with forb. words

Set if post which includes forbidden words will be saved to guestbook (set action for forbidden words!!) or not

Display forbidden words

Select action for items with forbidden words (Censorship = replace word with ***, do not use show)

Maximum Characters

Set maximum number of characters, they can be saved in the database (Don't forget that e.g. URL link 'link' has not 4 characters but e.g. 39: (a href&;61;"http://www.link.xxx/")link(/a) )

Maximum Url

Set maximum number of URL links that can be displayed in a message (0: no URL links will be displayed in messages, -1: all URL links will be displayed in messages, e.g. 3: Only three URL links of all URL links will be displayed in messages)

Not Allowed Url-words

Set words, which will identify not allowed URLs within the post. Separate each word with comma (,). Example: ://,.htm,.asp,.jsp,.php,www.,.com,.org,.net

Save post with url

Set if post which increase max url/include not allowed url words will be saved to guestbook

Enable HTML Purifier

Enable or disable HTML Purifier

Session Suffix

Set session suffix (It is a security feature to change the name of session, set unique suffix, for example: a100b20c3)

Content Check

Messages are validated online by send subject, name, email, content and ipaddr to the webservice. The provider can check the content and give a spam score.Supported providers:

Akismethttps://akismet.com/

mollomhttp://mollom.com

Parameter

Value

Block Spam(Content Check)

If reject, posts identified as spam will be completly denied. If review, the posts will be submitted and saved as an unpublished entry. If disabled no check is done

Akismet Spam Protection

Sends all data of a new geustbook entry to the Akismet Webservice to check for possible spam

Akismet API Key

Set Akismet API Key which is needed to use the Akismet-Spam-Protection service. Get yours at https://akismet.com/signup/#free

Akismet URL

The main URL of your website. Is required for the correct performance of Akismet (URL must include http:// prefix)

Enable mollom(content Check)

Sends all data of a new geustbook entry to the Mollom Webservice to check for possible spam

Mollom public key

The public key from mollom (used for content check and captcha!)

Mollom private key

The private key from mollom (used for content check and captcha!)

IP Address Check

The user IP Address is validated online from a webservice. The provider can check the address and give a spam score.Supported providers: